Teach Yourself Mathematics

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teach yourself mathematics trevor johnson and hugh neill For over 60 years, more than 40 milion people have ieamt over 750 subjects the teach yourself way, with impressive results be where you want to be with teach yourself For UK order enquiries: please contact Bookpoint Lid, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ‘OX14 4SB. Telephone: +44 (0) 1235 827720. Fax: +44 (0) 1235 400454. Lines are open 09.00-18.00, Monday to Saturday, with a 24-hour message answering service. Details about our titles and how to order are available at www.teachyourself.co.uk For USA order enquiries: please contact McGraw-Hill Customer Services, PO Box 545, Blacklick, OH 43004-0545, USA. Telephone: 1-800-722-4726, Fax: 1-614-755-5645. For Canada order enquiries: please contact McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, 300 Water St, Whitby, Ontario L1N 9B6, Canada, Telephone: 905 430 5000, Fax: 905 430 5020. Long renowned as the authoritative source for self-guided learning — with more than 40 million copies sold worldwide — the teach yourself series includes over 300 titles in the fields of languages, crafts, hobbies, business, computing and education. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data: a catalogue record for this tte is availabe from the British Library Library af Congress Catalog Card Number: on file. First published in UK 2001 by Hodder Education, 338 Euston Road, London, NW1 3BH. First published in US 2001 by Contemporary Books, a Division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, 1 Prudential Plaza, 180 East Randolph Street, Chicago, IL 60601 USA. This edition published 2003. ‘The teach yourself name is a registered trade mark of Hodder Headline. Copyright © 2001, 2003 Hugh Neill and Trevor Johnson. {In UK: All rights reserved, Apart from any permitted use under UK copyright aw, no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any mears, electronic ‘or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information, storage and retvieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher or under licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Further details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited, of 90 Tottenham Gourt Road, London W1T LP. ‘In US. Al rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this pubication may be reproduced or distributed in any form of means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permis Contemporary Books. Typeset by Transet Limited, Coventry, England. Printed in Great Britain for Hodder Education, a division of Hodder Headline, 338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH, by Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading, Berkshire. Hodder Headline’ policy is to use papers that are natural, renewable and recyclable products and made from wood grown in sustainable forests. The logging and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. impression number 109 8 7 6 5 Year ‘nin 9nna onnR 2nN7 OnNA 9MNE, CONTENTS Number Angles Fractions Two-dimensional shapes Decimals Directed numbers Graphs 1 Measurement Perimeter and area Algebra Approximation Equations 1 Percentages Formulae Circles Probability Three-dimensional shapes Ratio and proportion Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometry Indices and standard form Statistics 2 Graphs 2 Equations 2 Answers Index sa} 21 31 44 57 73 79 83 94 105 120 130 140 151 156 165 179 190 200 215 225 237 249 265 279

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